Academic Advisement and Professional Mentorship

1.

When a student is admitted to JSU and the MSW program, she/he receives electronic access to JSU web resources and then is contacted by the MSW program staff and given advisement and registration information (309 Brewer Hall / 256-782-5591)

2.

Students are contacted by the MSW Program Academic Advisor face-to-face, electronically, or by phone prior to the first semester of the MSW program and each semester moving forward.

3.

The student meets with the advisor each semester to review progress toward completing degree requirements and obtains approval for his or her next semester's course schedule.

4.

Students receive professional career advisement concurrently when they meet with their MSW Program Academic Advisor, who is a professor in the MSW Program and has at least two years of professional social work practice experience.